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Djibouti

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 Location: East Africa
Bordering countries: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia
Area: 22,000 sq. km
Population statistics (based on United Nations sources):
  • Total: 629,000 (1999)
  • Growth rate: 2.87
  • Ratio of males per 100 females: 96.9
  • Age structure (1995 figures)
    • Percentage aged 0-4 : 15.6
    • Percentage aged 5-14 : 25.5
    • Percentage aged 15-24 : 19.6
    • Percentage aged 25-60 : 31.3
    • Percentage aged 60-over : 8.0
  • Population density: 26 per sq. km

Literacy rate: 62.3% (1998)
GNP in US$ billions: 0.470 (estimates for 1995)
GNP per capita in US$: 856 (estimates for 1995)
Human Development Index value: 0.447 (1998)
Human Development Index rank: 149 of 174 countries
Gender-related Development Index value: na
Gender-related Development Index rank: na

 

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Poorly endowed with natural resources, Djibouti is heavily dependent on foreign aid and earnings from its free port. More than two-thirds of the population live in the port city of Djibouti. Formerly French Somaliland, and also known as the French Territory of the Afars and Issas from 1967 to 1977, the country gained its independence in 1977.

The economy is based on service activities, mainly services as both a transit port for the region and an international trans-shipment and refueling centre. Since the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998, the port of Djibouti is serving as the entry and exit point for Ethiopia for import and export of goods. Djibouti embarked on a democratic reform in the early 1990s.

Djibouti has a well developed telecommunications network. In 1998, the number of connected telephone lines was approximately 8,800, resulting in a telephone density of 1.40 line per hundred people, one of the highest in the East Africa region.

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